E-mail: balmer@math.ucla.edu

Phone: + 1 - 310 - 206 86 35

Address:
UCLA Mathematics Department
PO Box 951555
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555

Office: Math Sciences (MS) 6129
Campus maps: interactive or PDF

Office hours: Wednesday from 11:00 to 11:50 am and Friday from 10:00 to 10:50 am.

Research interests:

Tensor triangular geometry
Algebraic geometry
Modular representation theory
Homotopy theory

Editorial activities:

Annals of K-Theory for the K-Theory Foundation.
Big fan of MSP's EditFlow: watch EditFlow tutorial

Some past events (that I co-organised):

Ascona: 2007 February 18-23.
Banff: 2011 June 12-17 and 2016 June 19-24.
Ålesund: 2022 June 6-10.
Bonn: 2022 September-December.
Oberwolfach: 2023 September 17-23.

Upcoming events (that I'll attend):

Linz: 2025 September 1-5.
Osaka: 2025 December 15-19.
Oberwolfach: 2026 February 22-27.
Italy: 2026 March 2-6.
London: 2026 June 8-12.
Lens: 2026 June 29-July 3.
Bonn: 2026 August 24-28.

UCLA links:

UCLA Colloquium
UCLA Algebra Research Group
UCLA Algebra Seminar
Prospective grad students
Webmail

Further links:

MathSciNet
arXiv
New directions in group theory and triangulated categories
MSRI
YouTube